Robert Mitchum sings The Ballad of Thunder Road

A video I cut together with car chase scenes from the 1958 Robert Mitchum movie, Thunder Road. The background music track is a theme song for the movie, written and sung by Robert Mitchum (though his version wasn’t used in the movie). The movie had a lot of influence for a B-rate feature. It was the inspiration for Bruce Springsteen’s song “Thunder Road“ (though the song and the movie have nothing much to do with each other; The Boss saw a poster for the movie and liked the name); some aspects of the desig